Game 15: Kentucky Wildcats at Vanderbilt Commodores — Open Game Thread

One of the weird things about Kentucky’s 9-16 vomit fest that was the 2020-21 season is that it seems to have reset expectations for that program to a more realistic level for John Calipari’s post-2015 progam. Kentucky hasn’t returned to the Final Four since then and has only made the Elite Eight twice in five seasons in which the tournament was contested and yet, here were the Wildcats’ preseason rankings in those years: 2, 2, 5, 2, 2, 10.